Bryan Lamont Hawkins, 37, of the 7300 block of Broken Staff Court, in Columbia, was located at a friend's home in Columbia on Thursday morning and arrested without incident, police spokeswoman Mary T. Phelan said.

Hawkins was charged with failure to register and providing false information, police said.

Police are still searching for the second man, Robert Jamie Saiz, 32, of the 8300 block of Montgomery Run Road in Ellicott City, according to Phelan.

According to police, Hawkins and Saiz were the only two out of 104 registered sex offenders in the county not accounted for during detectives’ regularly scheduled pre-Halloween check.

Police said the goal of the sweep is to identify anyone in violation of the registry’s reporting requirements, and to remind registered offenders on probation that they are forbidden from participating in Halloween.

Dominic J. Pistorio, a Baltimore homebuilder and World War II veteran who lived to 104 and wore suits almost every day until the last week of his life, died of pneumonia at Howard County General Hospital on March 25.

Agents with a state task force focused on protecting children from being sexually exploited on the Internet arrested a Columbia man after images of child pornography were allegedly found on computers and external hard drives at his home.

Just a week after Howard County's Planning Board voted to approve an outline of the Crescent neighborhood, which will bring apartments, office buildings, shops and an urban feel to a large, undeveloped plot in Columbia's downtown, developer Howard Hughes has presented plans for one portion of...